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Posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
the last couple of years i haven't been able to sit through tv shows, lectures in class, or long discussions with people. Movies at theatres are esp bad. Months ago at Spider Man II i walked out in the first 20 minutes b/c i felt overwhelmed/overstimulated and restless. I thought that it was just b/c i really didn't like the movie. but tonight i just walked out of National Treasure when i really was enjoying the movie. it felt like my heart was racing. i was gripping the arm rests and clenching my teeth. i could not sit still. i love to read books, but the last book (i just finished, finally) took me a week to read b/c i could only read 20/30 pages at a time. i don't know what is wrong with me.
i didn't used to be like this. as a kid i read at least one book a day and could sit still for hours at a time. i thought that ADD usually started in childhood, but now i am wondering if i have it and why it would hit me at 21. i see a new pdoc on thursday, but i wanted to run it by everyone here first. i have already been diagnosed with OCD and borderline personality disorder and am wondering why/how i could possibly have three disorders at the same time. this makes no sense!
Posted by Fallen4MyT on November 28, 2004, at 0:25:48
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
I do not know for sure but it sounds a LOT to me like anxiety. I have walked out of concerts and shows, same with the reading when my anxiety is sky high..(so you know for future reference on your way out tel the manager youre ill and often they ill give you a pass for another show date and time)
> the last couple of years i haven't been able to sit through tv shows, lectures in class, or long discussions with people. Movies at theatres are esp bad. Months ago at Spider Man II i walked out in the first 20 minutes b/c i felt overwhelmed/overstimulated and restless. I thought that it was just b/c i really didn't like the movie. but tonight i just walked out of National Treasure when i really was enjoying the movie. it felt like my heart was racing. i was gripping the arm rests and clenching my teeth. i could not sit still. i love to read books, but the last book (i just finished, finally) took me a week to read b/c i could only read 20/30 pages at a time. i don't know what is wrong with me.
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> i didn't used to be like this. as a kid i read at least one book a day and could sit still for hours at a time. i thought that ADD usually started in childhood, but now i am wondering if i have it and why it would hit me at 21. i see a new pdoc on thursday, but i wanted to run it by everyone here first. i have already been diagnosed with OCD and borderline personality disorder and am wondering why/how i could possibly have three disorders at the same time. this makes no sense!
Posted by 64bowtie on November 28, 2004, at 2:16:39
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
SM,
I am sad for you that this seems so debilitating and troublesome. You can see (in your mind's eye) the remedy, once you know what to look for.
Panic, phobias, OCD, and your inability to sit quietly (in your own skin) can be a fear of thinking, a fear of "imaging". The confusing part at first is that we notice we are afraid of something. Then we generalise it and become afraid of the thought of that same something without the something even happening.
We then notice that we suddenly on occasion get the "heeby-jeebys" for no reason that we can think of. Under guidcd imagery, it has been discovered by neuroscientists, "imaging" the fearful [noun], (people, place, thing, idea), will in fact evoke the same hysteria and panic that an actual encouter does. In other words, a mental picture, seen or only felt, evokes the same degree of panic that the remembered encounter did. That's not crazy. It is however a waste of time and energy, we are going through all that fear stuff, and we are probably in safe and familiar surroundings when we're doing it. Save the outburst till danger is really happening.
I am not poo-poo-ing anyones fright as not debilitating. I recognize fright and panic and anxiety when I see it. But when seen in an objective out-of-body guided imagery by the anxious and panicked person, they always report that their disembodied fear seems a silly curiosity. I report these findings as a message of hope.
I have seen hundreds helped by this process of out-of-body guided imagery.
Rod
Posted by fallsfall on November 28, 2004, at 10:59:06
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
I agree that it sounds more like anxiety. I believe that the criteria for "Adult ADD" includes having ADD symptoms as a child (in other words there is no such thing as ADD that *starts* in adulthood).
OCD is related to anxiety, and Borderline PD can include anxiety as part of its pattern as well. (And it took me many years to figure out that my "discomfort" should have been named "anxiety")
Good luck.
Posted by 64bowtie on November 28, 2004, at 14:59:55
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
Posted by Elisha on December 1, 2004, at 20:02:39
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
It very possibely could be that medications that you take are not at the right levels or a lot of other things try to let a profesional give you the diognosis as aposed to jumping to conclusions.
Good luck
Elisha
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